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Roughnecks. The "volunteers" also menaced foreign correspondents and diplomats who had turned out for the show. Christopher Wren of the New York Times had his camera shoved into his face, painfully chipping a tooth; then two roughnecks held his arms while an other punched him in the stomach. Other reporters, including Lynne Olson of the Associated Press and Michael Parks of the Baltimore Sun, got similar treatment when they came to Wren's aid. While all this was going on, uniformed militiamen and KGB (secret police) agents stood by or took pictures. When the hour-long fracas was over...
Though Moses is still sharp-tongued and healthy at age 85, his epitaph, as Author Robert Caro points out, might well be the same as that of 17th century British Architect Christopher Wren: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you would see his monument, look around...
...interpreter of Mozart, as he just has in this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Folding his gawky body (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 lbs.) down on the piano stool like some large, clumsy bird, Brendel at times brought an almost wren-like elegance to the formalized passion of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major...
...episodic" unreeling of stills. He felt "amateur," he reports, after seeing Costa-Gavras' Z: "It is so good that I don't know whether I should try more films." The remark, of course, is for effect. He would, if he could, mortgage Margaret's Christopher Wren-designed palace for a chance to do a feature film like that cinematographic tour de force, Elvira Madigan. His next project, though, will still be "on the fringes of documentary." He is dickering about it with CBS, to which he feels indebted for getting him into film. Though...
...exhibit tries to examine the main representation of American commercial architecture, the skyscraper. New York's monsters, the illuminated posters tell us, are the grandchildren of the Babylonian ziggurats, medieval siege towers, Notre Dame, and Christopher Wren's churches...